Showing posts with label The Fugs. Show all posts
Showing posts with label The Fugs. Show all posts

Friday, July 16, 2010

Tuli Kupferberg in Tompkins Square Park, 1990

As you know, Tuli Kupferberg died on Monday... John Penley shared some photos of Tuli speaking at the Fourth Annual Squatters' May Day in Tompkins Square Park from 1990...




(Photos via Flickr)

Monday, July 12, 2010

RIP Tuli Kupferberg

Tuli Kupferberg, a co-founder of the Fugs, has died. He was 86.

Robert Christgau called the Fugs "the Lower East Side’s first true underground band."

As the Times noted, the The Fugs formed in 1964 in the Peace Eye Bookstore on East 10th Street ... (Ephemeral New York has more on the bookstore here.)

Here's a photo of the shop when it was on 147 Avenue A...



Read more about Tuli's work here. Read more about the band's history here.

Thursday, January 7, 2010

Benefit for a Fug



St. Ann's Warehouse is hosting NOTHING, A BENEFIT FOR TULI KUPFERBERG on Friday, Jan. 22. Proceeds from the concert, produced by Hal Willner and featuring The Fugs, John Kruth, Lou Reed, Sonic Youth, Elliott Sharp, Pete Stampfel, John Zorn and others, will go to covering medical expenses for the Fugs co-founder, who suffered two strokes last year that have left him blind and in need of 24-hour care. Details here.

[Photo of the Fugs with Allen Ginsberg during a 1966 anti-war parade in NYC via Bettmann/CORBIS]